OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 21, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Msgr. Manuel da Rocha Felicio, president of the General Secretariat for Clergy of the diocese of Viseu, Portugal, as auxiliary of the patriarchate of Lisbon (area 3,735, population 2,205,077, Catholics 1,894,315, priests 600, permanent deacons 30, religious 1,788), Portugal. The bishop-elect was born in 1947 in Mamouros, Portugal and was ordained a priest in 1973.

- Msgr. Charles Scicluna as promoter of Justice at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

It was made public on Saturday October 19 that the Holy Father appointed:

- Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, as his special envoy to the solemn celebrations of the 1950th anniversary of the arrival of St. Thomas the Apostle in India and of the 450th anniversary of the beginning of St. Francis Xavier's mission. These celebrations will take place in Ernakulam, India on November 16 and 17, 2002.

- Msgr. Paul Tschang In-Nam, nunciature counsellor, as apostolic nuncio in Bangladesh, elevating him to the dignity of archbishop. The archbishop-elect was born in Seoul, Korea in 1949 and was ordained a priest in 1976.

NEA; NA; NN;...;...;...;VIS;20021021;Word: 180;